Paradise Regain'd: A Poem, in Four Books. To which is Added Samson Agonistes: and Poems Upon Several Occasions, المجلد 1J. and R. Tonson, 1753 - 721 من الصفحات |
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... fay are equal to feverab of his English compofitions : but yet they are not without their merit ; they are not a Cento like most of the modern Latin poetry ; there is fpirit , invention , and other marks and tokens of a rifing genius ...
... fay are equal to feverab of his English compofitions : but yet they are not without their merit ; they are not a Cento like most of the modern Latin poetry ; there is fpirit , invention , and other marks and tokens of a rifing genius ...
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... fay whether Milton's wrong notions in divinity led him 5 By to this defective plan ; or his fond- nefs for the plan influenced those notions . That is whether he in- deed fuppofed the redemption of mankind ( as he here reprefents it ) ...
... fay whether Milton's wrong notions in divinity led him 5 By to this defective plan ; or his fond- nefs for the plan influenced those notions . That is whether he in- deed fuppofed the redemption of mankind ( as he here reprefents it ) ...
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... fays . There was there- fore no oceafion for reading as fome body propofed , With profp❜rous wing full plum'd . 14 . -to tell of deeds Above heroic , ] Alluding perhaps in the turn of expreffion to the first verfe of Lucan , Bella per ...
... fays . There was there- fore no oceafion for reading as fome body propofed , With profp❜rous wing full plum'd . 14 . -to tell of deeds Above heroic , ] Alluding perhaps in the turn of expreffion to the first verfe of Lucan , Bella per ...
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... fay that he came with them to the flood For- dan , and came as then obfcure , is very good sense , and worthy of the repetition . 25. but him the Baptift foon Defery'd , divinely warm'd , ] John 30 35 Nigh the Baptift had notice given ...
... fay that he came with them to the flood For- dan , and came as then obfcure , is very good sense , and worthy of the repetition . 25. but him the Baptift foon Defery'd , divinely warm'd , ] John 30 35 Nigh the Baptift had notice given ...
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... fays , that the Holy Ghoft de- fcended in a bodily shape , III . 22. the poet fuppofes with Tertullian , Au- ftin , and others of the fathers , that it was a real dove , as the painters always represent it . 91. Who this is we must ...
... fays , that the Holy Ghoft de- fcended in a bodily shape , III . 22. the poet fuppofes with Tertullian , Au- ftin , and others of the fathers , that it was a real dove , as the painters always represent it . 91. Who this is we must ...
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الصفحة 322 - Nothing is here for tears, nothing to wail Or knock the breast, no weakness, no contempt. Dispraise or blame, nothing but well and fair. And what may quiet us in a death so noble.
الصفحة 22 - When I was yet a child, no childish play To me was pleasing ; all my mind was set Serious to learn and know, and thence to do What might be public good; myself I thought Born to that end, born to promote all truth, All righteous things...
الصفحة 166 - Where on the ^Egean shore a city stands Built nobly, pure the air, and light the soil ; Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of arts And eloquence, native to famous wits Or hospitable, in her sweet recess, City or suburban, studious walks and shades ; See there the olive grove of Academe, Plato's retirement, where the Attic bird Trills her thick-warbled notes the summer long ; There flowery hill Hymettus, with the sound Of bees...
الصفحة 317 - With horrible convulsion to and fro He tugg'd, he shook, till down they came and drew The whole roof after them, with burst of thunder Upon the heads of all who sat beneath, Lords, ladies, captains...
الصفحة 229 - But what more oft in nations grown corrupt, And by their vices brought to servitude, Than to love bondage more than liberty, Bondage with ease than strenuous liberty; And to despise, or envy, or suspect Whom GOD hath of His special favour raised As their deliverer?
الصفحة 46 - God hath now sent his living oracle Into the world to teach his final will, And sends his spirit of truth henceforth to dwell In pious hearts, an inward oracle To all truth requisite for men to know.
الصفحة 245 - Fearless of danger, like a petty God I walk'd about admir'd of all and dreaded On hostile ground, none daring my affront.
الصفحة 108 - Things vulgar, and, well weigh'd, scarce worth the praise ? They praise, and they admire, they know not what, And know not whom, but as one leads the other...
الصفحة 200 - Time serves not now, and perhaps I might seem too profuse to give any certain account of what the mind at home, in the spacious circuits of her musing, hath liberty to propose to herself, though of highest hope and hardest attempting; whether that epic form whereof the two poems of Homer and those other two of Virgil and Tasso are a diffuse, and the book of Job a brief model...
الصفحة 217 - And almost life itself, if it be true That. light is in the soul, She all in every part; why was the sight To such a tender ball as th' eye confin'd, So obvious and so easy to be quench'd?